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The Physics of Sailing Explained | 
 enlarge | Author: Bryon D. Anderson
Publisher: Sheridan House
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 194376
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1574091700
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8813
EAN: 9781574091700
ASIN: 1574091700
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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Product Description
Authoritative yet accessible, The Physics of Sailing Explained is the perfect work for those sailors who want to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of life at sea. It will enable readers to better grasp how sails, keels, and hulls work together to keep seafarers afloat, and will sharpen their skills with a more subtle and thorough appreciation of why various boat design features are present and why certain tactics work in certain situations. Anderson, a professor of physics at Kent State University and an avid sailor, outlines the science behind seagoing in such a way that anyone can understand and benefit from without having to trudge through a physics text or become a naval architect. With the help of this invaluable book, sailors will be better prepared to handle any situations that might arise on the water.
Topics covered include:
What limits the speed of a sailboat and what is hull speed ?
Can a sailboat ever go faster than its hull speed?
What is the best shape for a sailboat?
Can anything be done to reduce the friction of a sailboat moving through water?
What is the effect of turbulence created by a sailboat on how it moves through water and what can be done to reduce turbulence?
Why is a keel necessary on a sailboat?
How does a keel work?
How has keel design improved over the years?
How do sails work?
What is the fastest direction of sailing with respect to the wind direction?
Is it true that some sailboats can sail faster upwind than downwind?
Why are modern sails so tall and narrow for upwind sailing and much fuller for downwind sailing?
What produces the tides?
Why are there two high tides each day?
Do the tides follow the Moon around each day?
What produces the winds?
What causes the global wind patterns?
What is the Coriolis force and how does it affect global wind patterns?
What causes the global current patterns?
Why does the Gulf Stream exist?
And much more...
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Good but could be better August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a unique book somewhat bridging the qualitative and quantitative.
Organization is good, starting with the hull, then keel, sails and lastly weather. My fellow sailors snuck it away when they could, and I think we did learn some things.
Good was the hull speed derivation and shallow water wave speed derivation, and the discussions of scaling factors for the other technical parameters. Disappointing was that there were no other derivations and also that some of the figures are not well labeled (for instance, is cord length on Figures 3.8 a horizontal or vertical dimension?).
Hopefully in a year or two there may be another edition, putting in somewhat more physics.
Get this if you want a quick read to start to bridge the gap between the coffee table sailing books and proper yacht engineering tomes.
 Pretty good for the money February 25, 2008
This is better read at your desk with a pad and paper nearby. There are a few areas where you will need to run a few math problems to really 'get' this book. This is more of a college upper classman read than a warm winter night read.
Once past the math and the tougher parts, you might start to look for more subjects like blocks and running rigging and the physics involved with them. Additionally, I'd like to see more about the why of some of the design trade offs in some of the faster racing boats (Americas Cup, Volvo Ocean, etc.). Also a good discussion of the tradeoffs in hull design for different purposes would be nice.
 physics of sailing January 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book doesn't go into alot of detail, but for the novice sailor it's more than sufficient for a good starting point.
 Clear words March 9, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Clear and easy to understand words. I've found it very useful. The book covers the main physical phenomenas of sailing without complicated mathematical derivations and with interesting real life examples.
I really enjoyed reading it.
David Papp - Turbine Blade Designer
Very goog as a light introduction October 25, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Excelent small book for an introduction.
Easy to read, it gives a good overview of the main topics involved in the physics of sailing.
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